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The certainty of Christianity without popery, or, Whether the Catholic-Protestant or the papist have…The certainty of Christianity without popery, or, Whether the Catholick-Protestant or the papist have…
The certainty of Christianity without popery, or, Whether the Catholic-Protestant or the papist have the surer faith being an answer to one of the oft canted questions and challenges of the papists, sent to one who desired this : published to direct the unskilful, how to defend their faith against papists and infidels, but especially against the temptations of the Devil, that by saving their faith, they may save their holiness, their comfort and their souls / by Richard Baxter.The certainty of Christianity without popery, or, Whether the Catholick-Protestant or the papist have the surer faith being an answer to one of the oft canted questions and challenges of the papists, sent to one who desired this : published to direct the unskilful, how to defend their faith against papists and infidels, but especially against the temptations of the Devil, that by saving their faith, they may save their holiness, their comfort and their souls / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Nevil Simons, 1672
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
XXXVIII. We see you to be a Carnal Kingdom set up against Christs express determination, Luk. 22. 26. 1. Pet. 5. 3. As the Geographia Nubiensis saith (In Urbe Roma, &c. In the City of Rome are the seats of a King called the Pope: Nor is there any superiority in dignity above the Pope, and Kings are lower (or inferior) than he.) We see that you have compaginated your policy all for these carnal Ends; and that dignity, ⟨p. 95⟩and dominion, and riches, and worldliness is promoted by your faith: And that your Religion is propagated and upheld by most inhumane cruelties and bloodshed, and they must be burned that seem not to believe as you do: And will it not raise suspicions in us of the fidelity of such men, when they make their own faith, and tell us that we have no certainty of ours but by their determination: When also we see the wickedness of mens lives among you, in common Fornication and other heinous sin; when the certainest faith, will have the holiest life, when it is Subjectively as well as Objectively certain.
XXXVIII. We see you to be a Carnal Kingdom set up against Christs express determination, Luk. 22. 26. 1. Pet. 5. 3. As the Geographia Nubiensis saith (In Vrbe Roma, &c. In the City of Rome are the seats of a King called the Pope: Nor is there any superiority in dignity above the Pope, and Kings are lower (or inferior) than he.) We see that you have compaginated your policie all for these carnal Ends; and that dignity, ⟨p. 95⟩and dominion, and riches, and worldliness is promoted by your faith: And that your Religion is propagated and upheld by most inhumane cruelties and bloodshed, and they must be burned that seem not to believe as you do: And will it not raise suspicions in us of the fidelity of such men, when they make their own faith, and tell us that we have no certainty of ours but by their determination: When also we see the wickedness of mens lives among you, in common Fornication and other heinous sin; when the certainest faith, will have the holiest life, when it is Subjectively as well as Objectively certain.